User Guide

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HOW TO PLAY
FORCE FIRE [CTRL + ‘L’ CLICK]
Sometimes, you may want to have certain units fire on a building or area even if it isn’t an
enemy target. To get them to do this, you can use the Force Fire command. Simply select
the units that you want to do this, hold down the CTRL key, and click on the location that
you want the units to attack.The icon will be a targeting cursor as long as you hold down
the CTRL key.
Units in this mode will continue to fire on that area, ignoring all other threats, until you tell
them to stop, or give them a new order to follow. Some units cannot be forced to fire at
something, like an Engineer.
FORCE MOVE [ALT + ‘L’ CLICK]
Infantry annoying your tanks? Squish ‘em. Using the Force Move command, you can make
your Tanks (or any heavy unit) move into an enemy occupied area and attempt to overrun
the infantry in the square.To do this, select the unit(s) to Force Move, then hold down the
ALT key and left-click on the area you want to Force Move to. You can also use this to
single-out a particular infantry unit that is giving you a hard time.Your unit will attempt to
crush that infantry until either it succeeds, you give it a new order, or your unit is destroyed.
Vehicles cannot overrun each other, and infantry cannot overrun tanks. Only tracked or
heavy units can Force Move into enemy infantry.You cannot force your tanks to crush your
own infantry.
SCATTER [‘X’ KEY]
Tanks trying to squish your infantry? Ornithopters coming in with Parabombs? With Scatter,
you can make your troops move in a random direction from their current location, allowing
them to (most of the time) dodge out of harms way.
To Scatter units, select them and hit the ‘X’ key. Units that are scattering will continue to
carry out any attack orders, so you can select them, tell them to attack, then hit the ‘X’ key
to make them Scatter from the threat.
Note: Scattering will only make all the selected units move once. If you want them to
continually Scatter, you must keep the units selected, and continue to hit the ‘X’ key every
second or so. Otherwise, they will Scatter once, then stop, and continue to attack the target
you’ve given them. Also, units that are scattering may Scatter out of their fire range. If this
happens, left-click on the target again (with the units still selected), and your units will move
back into firing range.